Ancient population · Bronze Age

North Caucasus (Bronze Age, Russia)

Name: North Caucasus (Bronze Age, Russia) (Russia_North_Caucasus)
Creator: Genoplot

Russia_North_Caucasus

North Caucasus (Bronze Age, Russia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Russia_North_Caucasus), with 5 samples from Russia, dated to c. 2810–2720 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Bayankhongor (Early Bronze Age, Mongolia), Afanasievo 1 (Bronze Age) and North Caucasus (Early Bronze Age, Russia); the nearest living populations are Darginian, Akhvakh and Andian B.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (4); its mtDNA haplogroups include R1a (2), H13a and U2e.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 2810–2720 BCE
Country: Russia
Sampled near: Bely-Ugol'-2 44.31, 42.76
Sites: Bely-Ugol'-2
Goryachevodskiy-2
Lysogorskaya-6
Maryinskaya-5
Rasshevatskiy-1
Samples: 5
Published in: WangHaakNatComm2019
Catalogue: Russia_North_Caucasus

Nearest populations

Distance between population averages in scaled G25 space, ×100. Lower is closer. It says who resembles this population, not who descends from it; an nMonte model tests that.

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Bayankhongor (Early Bronze Age, Mongolia)`Mongolia_Bayankhongor_EBA`	2.76
2	Afanasievo 1 (Bronze Age)`Afanasievo_1`	2.82
3	North Caucasus (Early Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_NorthCaucasus_EBA`	3.24
4	Samara Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Samara_EBA_Yamnaya`	3.24
5	Caucasus Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Caucasus_EBA_Yamnaya`	3.27
6	Steppe Catacomb (Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Steppe_Catacomb`	3.34
7	Kalmykia Yamnaya (Early Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Kalmykia_EBA_Yamnaya`	3.43
8	Yamnaya Kalmykia (Bronze Age, Russia)`Yamnaya_RUS_Kalmykia`	3.44
9	Afanasievo (Bronze Age, Russia)`Russia_Afanasievo`	3.49
10	Yamnaya Karagash (Bronze Age, Kazakhstan)`Yamnaya_KAZ_Karagash`	3.80

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Darginian`Darginian`	10.70
2	Akhvakh`Akhvakh`	10.73
3	Andian B`Andian_B`	11.05
4	Pamiri Rushan`Pamiri_Rushan`	11.07
5	Tajik Rushan`Tajik_Rushan`	11.10
6	Avar`Avar`	11.11
7	Kubachinian`Kubachinian`	11.26
8	Kaitag`Kaitag`	11.27
9	Chamalin`Chamalin`	11.34
10	Lak`Lak`	11.49

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

4 men with a call

R1b1a1b1b R-M12149 2
R1b1a1 R-P297
R1b1a1b R-M269

mtDNA

4 individuals with a call

Individuals 5

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`BU2001`	M	2866-2582 calBCE	Bely-Ugol'-2	R1b1a1 R-P297
`GW1001`	M	2883-2638 calBCE	Goryachevodskiy-2	R1b1a1b1b R-M12149	U2e1b
`LYG001`	M	2866-2580 calBCE	Lysogorskaya-6	R1b1a1b1b R-M12149	H13a1a2
`MK5009`	M	2879-2631 calBCE	Maryinskaya-5	R1b1a1b R-M269	R1a1a
`RK1003`	F	2899-2701 calBCE	Rasshevatskiy-1		R1a1a